[geeks] Sun-HOWTO

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Fri, 2001-10-19 at 01:41, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> > Eh, we've got six guys adminning ~80 unix boxes; I think at least most of
> > the people in the IT department do their own "desktop admin".  We have a
> > whole another department to support the normal lusers elsewhere in the
> > company... 8-)
> 
> Geez, and we got a rash of shit @NCGR for being "overstaffed" with four
> people to support 60 or so UNIX desktops, about 30 PC's, 10 Macs, a dozen
> or so laptops, a room full of servers, and an E10K.  

It's all relative.  At my last (shithole) job we started out with 3
people to admin 250 or so Windows machines (primarily win95 on POS
hardware), plus 15 NT/Netware servers, and a Nortel Meridian 1 phone
switch.  But that -was- understaffed.  Just going around helping people
figure out how to "print labels" from word for all those people was a
full time job for 1.  I managed to get a couple of Linux server in there
by the time I left (they were too cheap for anything else), and they got
touched once a week so that I could review the logs.  The NT machines
had to get touched every single day, or they got cranky and crashed. 
:-)
	Greg